Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
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I'm not saying that Emet did anything 'differently'.

If Venat had acted entirely based off of the story that we told her in Poieten Oikos (i.e. the information about Emet's misdeeds that we knew from Shadowbringers), then Emet-Selch would have lived out his days as an ordinary human being and died thousands of years ago, his memories and knowledge along with it. The story that we told her was only half of the picture, because even we didn't yet know that he had a redemption arc at that point. It just goes to show you how precarious it can be to try to metagame a predicted future event when you don't fully understand how the timeline is constructed.

You can act like Emet didn't have a choice in any of this, but either everyone has free will or nobody does at all. He chose to become a villain, but he also chose to try to redeem himself.